Messiah of Evil
- Tue, Mar 31
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 1975
Starring: Anitra Ford, Joy Bang, Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Royal Dano
Echoing everything from Herk Harvey’s Carnival Of Souls to Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby…Kill!, Messiah Of Evil is a swirling vortex of Lovecraftian terror and grisly bloodshed from the team who’d later go on to make Howard The Duck! That perfect storm of madness makes it a perfect entry into our Hallucinations series!
After receiving a string of unsettling letters from her father, Arletty arrives in a sleepy California coastal town called Point Dune. Dad is nowhere to be seen. Instead, Arletty finds a town full of drugged-out burnouts, barren shopping centers, and…something else.
Marianna Hill (High Plains Drifter), Michael Greer (Fortune And Men’s Eyes), and Elisha Cook Jr. (The Maltese Falcon) star in this unjustly overlooked major work of independent American horror that’s primed for (re)discovery.
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.